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Android Squared CardView

May 25, 2019

android, CardView, ConstraintLayout, square

Recently, I had to add a perfect square CardView and I wanted to achieve this without hardcoding its width and height. I happily discovered the power of ConstraintLayout and this is how I managed to create a perfect square which…

Print Android test log into terminal/console

August 2, 2021

Catalin Prata

Privacy Policy

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While debugging some Android instrumentation tests that were ran using ‘adb shell am instrument’, I needed to print some logs into the terminal/console to inspect the flow and resolve some issues. Log.i/e/d or System.out are not printing the logs in…

Android Parse JSON file from Assets

July 25, 2019

Laura Suciu

Snippets, Solutions

GSON, JSON, parse

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If you ever wondered how to read and parse a simple JSON file stored in the assets directory of your Android project, here is a way to do it.

Android Simple Section RecylerView

July 18, 2019

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, RecyclerView, section, sectioned recyclerView, simple sectioned RecyclerView

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In this tutorial I will create a simple Sectioned RecyclerView that will show 2 sections and a few items in each section and how to move an item from one section to another. Note: For RecyclerView I used AndroidX imports…

Android Bottom Border Line

April 11, 2019

Laura Suciu

Solutions

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The simplest way to add a bottom border line to a view is this one. If you search on Google and StackOverflow you will find many ways to do this, but they seemed overly complex compared to this one. So…

Xamarin Forms: ActivityIndicator Size

March 28, 2019

Laura Suciu

Xamarin Forms

ActivityIndicator, Reduce size, scale, xamarin forms

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We all will need at some point to show an activity indicator when our app has to perform lenghty data processing operations or when we have to wait for our app to load content. In Xamarin Forms we can use…

Xamarin Forms: Circle With Label No Renderer

March 14, 2019

Laura Suciu

Xamarin Forms

circle, cornerRadius, frame, label, no renderer, xamarin forms

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In your application you might need to create a Circle image with a text inside it or just a simple circle that needs different colors for status for example. In this case we can use a Frame and add CornerRadius…

Xamarin Forms: Label LineBreakMode

March 14, 2019

Laura Suciu

Xamarin Forms

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You can set a LineBreakMode attribute to a Label that can have the following values: TailTruncation HeadTruncation MiddleTruncation CharacterWrap WordWrap NoWrap TailTruncation If you have a text that is to large to fit the width of your label, you can…

Kotlin RecyclerView with Click Listener

August 17, 2018

Laura Suciu

Kotlin

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In this post we will create a RecyclerView with items that are clickable. The approach is a bit different from what we are used to when using ListView, but you will see further in the following lines how to do…

Android Squared CardView

Print Android test log into terminal/console

Android Parse JSON file from Assets

Android Simple Section RecylerView

Android Bottom Border Line

Xamarin Forms: ActivityIndicator Size

Xamarin Forms: Circle With Label No Renderer

Xamarin Forms: Label LineBreakMode

Kotlin RecyclerView with Click Listener

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